I think I can expand a bit on this user's needs, based on what features several other applications have available.

A couple of quick menu options that would prove useful:

1) Print Screen
2) Print all scrollback
3) (When text is selected): Print Selection.

I've recently opened another bug for "Passthrough" printing support, but if we're going to make gnome-terminal talk to printers, this is only a minor other undertaking.

-Dan Mahoney

See Also: bug 613854

Related to this, I’d really like a „dump as HTML“ and „dump as PDF“ feature, that would generate a HTML (or PDF, or SVG) file of the current screen/the selection/the full scrollback buffer _with attributes_ (colors, boldness. Maybe even blinking, in case of HTML :-)).

I’d be willing to (try to) implement this if there is a chance that this would be accepted.

Although it would be nice and helpful if bug 499895 were fixed first :-)

HTML export should be already filed somewhere else.

Correct, that is bug 365121. I guess a simple export would be the first thing to do. Based on that, and independenty, a printing dialog and the copy target could be implemented.

In case I loose track or interest here, and someone else will pick up this bug, here is some code that might be useful to debug your html target:

#!/usr/bin/python

import pygtk
pygtk.require('2.0')
import gtk
import gobject

def dump_clipboard_callback(clipboard, selection_data, data=None):
        print selection_data.data
        gtk.main_quit()

def blubb():
    clipboard = gtk.Clipboard()
    target = "text/html"
    clipboard.wait_for_contents(target)
    clipboard.request_contents(target, dump_clipboard_callback)
    return False

gobject.idle_add(blubb)
gtk.main()

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